Meet Our Team

Founder & Principal, cwiggins@lumenleadershipstrategies.com

Christian Wiggins is a consultant, coach, speaker and former non-profit executive with 16 years of c suite experience. He has experience with 501 (c) 3, 5, 6 and 7 non-profit organizations, as well as work and consulting experience with for-profit organizations.

Wiggins holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Management from Elon University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina. He is one of fewer than 5% of association leaders to the coveted distinction of being a Certified Association Executive (CAE).

Christian is an active member of American Society of Association Executives (ASAE ) and is a Scholar in the 2022-2024 Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP).

Career

He started his career with Harrah’s Entertainment where he built data driven customer experiences through human capital alignment and training. Following this role, he worked for Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity as Director of Alumni Engagement and later as the Chief Operating Officer. In his nine years as COO, he managed operations, expansion and growth, training and education, communications, technology, and lifelong member engagement. He led a staff of 50 who more than doubled membership, facilitated a successful organization re-brand, partnered with the Foundation to raise more than $9.3 million in major gifts and led the organization through a strategic plan and crafted and implemented another.

Most recently, he was the Chief Executive Officer of FarmHouse Fraternity where he provided strategic leadership and course-altering direction for a centennial organization of more than 30,000 members through a period of financial recovery, a global pandemic and damaging brand and legal issues for the association and industry. He facilitated a redesign of human capital, which better reflected environmental trends, the organization’s strategic needs and the evolving market for membership and higher education associations. Under his leadership the team redefined and grew revenue channels and provided depth in the membership experience, using unique technology, communication and programming strategies. He facilitated the modernization of the organization’s data and technology infrastructure, evolving the association from legacy solutions to cloud-based and secure platforms that better served the analytical and practical needs of the staff, while also providing a stronger member engagement experience. Christian partnered with Foundation leadership to grow unrestricted annual support, as well as unrestricted assets, to support the educational, staffing and administrative burdens of the organization. This work transformed the financial situation, so that one-third of all revenue was provided through donor support.

Community & Home

Over the course of his career, Wiggins has served on more than two dozen non-profit boards, spanning a variety of causes, including those that serve higher education and fraternities and sororities, as well as those that benefit women, the LGBTQ community, local healthcare and community development. He has given almost two decades of volunteer service at multiple levels with his Alma Mater, mostly recently completing a term as co-chair for the final year of the $260 million Elon LEADS Campaign.

Christian lives in Kansas City, MO with his partner and their four year old black lab, Lumen. In his spare time Christian enjoys time with friends, traveling, cheering on the Chiefs, reading (especially biographies and works of history), home improvement projects, investing, volunteering and staying active in his community.

Consultant, brooke.lecky.supple@gmail.com

Brooke Lecky Supple, Ph.D. is a higher education consultant with extensive experience in student affairs and higher education leadership with significant roles and experience in search processes and functions, program development, major event creation and execution, student leadership development, communication efforts, development and fundraising, alumni engagement, volunteer engagement, and organizational leadership. Her most recent clients have included NASPA, CASE, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Georgetown University, and Homes for America, among others.

Prior to launching her own consulting business in 2022, Brooke served as the Assistant Vice President and Chief of Staff for the Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Maryland for over 25 years. In this capacity, she assisted the Vice President with planning, staffing and policy issues and served on the senior leadership team for the Division of Student Affairs.  During her tenure at the University of Maryland, she oversaw human resources for the Division of Student Affairs, including management of hundreds of searches at all levels including many Directors and AVPs. Brooke obtained her B.A. from the University of Virginia, her M.Ed. from Vanderbilt University and her Ph.D. in Education Policy and Administration from the University of Maryland. 

Consultant, kahlin.mckeown@gmail.com

Kahlin McKeown brings 12+ years of higher education, nonprofit, and leadership experience to the team. She earned her bachelor's degree in education from the University of Delaware and masters from Bowling Green State University in higher education administration. Kahlin spent most of her career in fraternity/sorority life roles, both on campuses and at headquarters.

Kahlin recently transitioned out of higher education into corporate EdTech roles, where she works with learning & development professionals to leverage technology to advance their workforce. She also volunteers as a chapter advisor to the Alpha Xi Delta chapter at the University of Maryland.